Arts & Entertainment
The 21st annual Rock ‘n Roll Festival returned to the river last night, kicking off with the famous street dance and fireworks. The festival got under way in the Downtown Newcastle Waterfront Parking Lot with the Official Opening Ceremonies and Street Dance beginning at 7 pm. Music for the Street Dance was provided by Tim Irving…
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2015 Schedule of Events: June 28 – August 30 – Sunday evening entertainment: “Symphony at Sunset” in Bicentennial Park, 7:00 PM weekly June 29 – Historic Tours to Beaubears Island & Wilsons Point begin, 2:00 PM daily July 18 – Canada’s Parks Day August 3 – New Brunswick Day “Paddle with a Pro” in our voyageur canoe! August 5 – Miramichi Movie Montage […]
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Music NB announced an updated vision regarding it’s annual event. Previously named MNB Festival, the newly rebranded Festival 506 will offer New Brunswick artists the opportunity to be seen, to network and to further develop their career in an event that is now, more than ever, accessible to the public. Music NB also announced that…
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The Irish Canadian Cultural Association of NB – Miramichi Chapter held a fun afternoon Irish Spring event on Sunday June 7th at the Little White School, the Seniors Hall in Nelson. The event welcomed members and new members to celebrate Irish music, food and heritage. Members also took to the floor to talk about their Irish roots. The…
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The dancers of Karasek Dance School will hit the stage at Carrefour Beausoleil on Saturday, June 6th for their 2015 show “Dance Again”. There will be a matinee at 2 pm and an evening performance at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $20 in advance or $24 at the door and are available at Brookdale Flower Shop in Newcastle,…
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Come celebrate the Miramichi’s early logging traditions of lumbermen, teamsters, and loggers! The Central New Brunswick Woodmen’s Museum invites you to spend an evening with renowned Miramichi author, David Adams Richards and The Friends of Meager Fortune. This is an opportunity to meet the winner of the Governor General literary awards in two different categories;…
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Students of all ages and all levels of talent hit the stage at Carrefour Beausoleil for the annual year end performance of Ronald Doiron’s Music Studio on Saturday, May 30th. Solo and group student performers presented a selection of various styles of music from the instruments they learned to play throughout the year including guitar, violin, drums, cello, piano, and…
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The Miramichi Art Core invite you to come see what they’ve been up to lately! Ten members of the group will present an Exhibit and Sale of their Artwork on Friday June 5th from 2 – 8 pm, and Saturday June 6th and Sunday June 7th from 1 – 5 pm in the WS Loggie Cultural Centre…
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The first Annual Miramichi International Film Festival was held on Saturday, May 16th at NBCC-Miramichi. The event was sponsored by Wellness/Healthy Communities in partnership with NBCC and the Miramichi Multicultural Association. Following the event, Judy Bowman shared the following observations on the Words on Water Facebook Page: Short animation films for middle and high school…
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Three time Canadian Grand Masters Fiddle Champion Patti Kusturok heated up the Beaverbrook Kin Centre in Newcastle on Wednesday May 13th. The Manitoba Fiddle Association Hall of Fame Member was accompanied by Jeremy Rusu, who was a sensation on every instrument he played. The kitchen party atmosphere had Patti playing many of the songs she wrote throughout…
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An enthusiastic audience showed up to the James M Hill (JMH) Learning Commons in the school library in Chathom on Tuesday May 12th to hear Miramichi writer Matt Mott read from his debut collection of horror stories, Finding Woods. Matt was born and raised on the Miramichi. He graduated from JMH in 2004 as the class valedictorian and continued his education at…
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By Sandra Bunting After 26 years of travelling through more than 180 countries, Selim Ozcan has decided to stop for awhile in order to start writing and to organise his films. He also wants to create a Canadian-based charity in order to consolidate and structure his humanitarian projects. He will make his plans public for…
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Miramichi’s performance art series, Words on Water is pleased to launch The Breach House Anthology VOL III, on Saturday, May 9, 2015, upstairs at Season’s View Café on Water Street in the Historic Chatham Business District. Members of the Breach House Gang will read in both English and French from this new collection of poetry […]
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